Articles, research and views relating to the femicide census.
Today (Thursday 12 March 2026) Jess Philips MP will stand in parliament and read the names of 100 women killed in the UK by men
For the first time ever, the Government has used the word femicide – the killing of women and girls – in its strategy to tackle men’s violence against women and girls and does so three times. However …
In the 5,147 days since the Conservatives became the government on 11 May 2010, at least 1,909 women have been killed by men, that’s an average of one woman dead at the hands of a man in the UK every 2.7 days.
After 27-year-old Kulsuma Akter was stabbed to death in the street in Bradford, it emerged that Habibur Masum, 25, wanted and since arrested in relation
The Femicide Census has requested a review of the sentence of Mark Clowes in respect of the death of Clare Bell under the Unduly Lenient
Dear Chief Constable Pam Kelly and Superintendent Vicki Townsend, We write from the Femicide Census, the UK’s only resource documenting the number of women killed
The Femicide Census has found that 16 femicides (women killed by men)[i] were committed by men who were either in or who had retired from
Femicide Census Comment on the Killing of Maxine Chapman/ Davison, Sophie Martin, Kate Shepherd, Lee Martyn, Stephen Washington and Daniela Espirito Santo Within hours of
In memory of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman We are found in a park with our sister, after dancing under the stars; we are found
62 women were killed between 2009-2018 in the area covered by Thames Valley police – the 6th highest in UK femicide numbers over 10 years.
